{"id":23021,"date":"2022-01-26T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=186047"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:37:02","slug":"tokyo-paralympics-gold-medalist-pramod-bhagat-believes-padma-shri-will-inspire-him-to-perform-better-at-the-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/badminton\/tokyo-paralympics-gold-medalist-pramod-bhagat-believes-padma-shri-will-inspire-him-to-perform-better-at-the-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Paralympics gold-medalist, Pramod Bhagat believes Padma Shri will inspire him to perform better at the Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Paralympics Gold Medalist, Pramod Bhagat said that the Padma Shri award will inspire him to perform better and put in extra efforts in training for Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>Pramod Bhagat has been awarded Padma Shri on the eve of the 73rd Republic Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honoured with Padma Shri Award \ud83c\udf96<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sports_odisha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sports_odisha<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Media_SAI<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParalympicIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ParalympicIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PadmaShri?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PadmaShri<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PramodBhagat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PramodBhagat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/paris?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#paris<\/a>\ud83c\udfaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ks7G7T3a6s\">pic.twitter.com\/Ks7G7T3a6s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pramod Bhagat (@PramodBhagat83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PramodBhagat83\/status\/1486001336063827968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old said that it is a truly humbling experience to be awarded the Padma Shri and it will inspire him to earn more laurels for his country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will inspire me to strive harder and put in extra efforts in training and Asian Games and World Championships which are scheduled for this year\u201d, Pramod said to ANI.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award for Para-badminton in 2021 and Arjuna Award for Para-Badminton in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He is busy training in pain for Asian Games and World Championships, and with Paralympics coming in 2024, this year has become even more important for the para shuttlers.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 15, he played his first tournament against normal category players. He was encouraged by the spectators which motivated him to progress in his Badminton career. He is a three-time world champion and is currently ranked no.1 in para-badminton men\u2019s singles. He has also won a gold medal at the Asian Para Games 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pramod Bhagat said that it is a truly humbling experience to be awarded the Padma Shri and it will inspire him to earn more laurels for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":43169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[637,2181,2654],"class_list":["post-23021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-badminton","tag-asian-games","tag-padma-shri-award","tag-pramod-bhagat"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}